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Welcome to 2019, gentle readers! Big things lie in store for all of us, so start off this, the first full week of the year, with some good reads! As long as you’re here, why not subscribe to...
Before we delve into the posts we’re reading and loving elsewhere on the internet, don’t miss Philippa Willitts on how cis lesbians are being used to advance transphobic agendas. And subscribe to...
Before we delve into the posts we’re reading and loving elsewhere on the internet, don’t miss Louise Hung's exploration of the ghostly women who haunt folklore in places like Japan and China. It...
Whether it’s David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II or reports of “islands” of plastic waste in the ocean that are bigger than Mexico, the problem of excess plastic is – rightly – becoming...
Thomas Edison said two prescient things about the manufacturing of lightbulbs: "we now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb” and "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will...
I tend to prefer reviewing documentary features to fiction, not because of any affinity for reality over fantasy, but because a bad doc just tends to be less painful to sit through than a mediocre...
I love the way BBC world news service segues from one story to another - from the misery of floods in Pakistan it effortlessly moves to jellyfish attacks on Spanish beaches. The consistent gravity of...
By the time my birthday rolled around this year, I was away from Moscow for a while - taking care of family business, mostly. Because the situation surrounding the health of a relative in Kiev was...
Oil has been flowing into the gulf for over a month now and it seems that a resolution continues to remain just out of reach. The disaster is now openly being compared to Hurricane Katrina – and...